美國一名高中生因感染葡萄球菌而死亡之後，政府官員在17日緊急關閉維吉尼亞州貝德福郡（Bedford County）21所學校，以避免感染擴大。現年17歲的邦茲(Ashton Bonds)，就讀於維吉尼亞州史唐敦河高中，入院治療一周多，於15日宣告不治死亡。
邦茲被診斷出感染抗甲氧西林金黃色葡萄球菌(Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus，簡稱MRSA)，其是一種經由細菌感染的疾病，無法使用抗生素來治療，對於幼童、老人和免疫系統不佳的人具有更大的殺傷力。
而抗藥性葡萄球菌感染情形比想像中還要嚴重，聯邦政府研究員週三在美國醫療協會專欄發表的研究發現，因抗藥性金黃葡萄球菌引起的感染不再僅限於醫院的內部感染，而是慢慢在各社群中，如學校等，也發現了感染情形。
該研究也指出2005年美國因感染抗藥性金黃葡萄球菌而死亡的人數約有1萬8650人，比當年度因愛滋病（HIV/AIDS）而死亡的人數，約1萬7011人，還要多。
Officials closed all 21 schools in Bedford County, Virginia for disinfection Wednesday after a high school student died of a staph infection. Ashton Bonds, 17, Staunton River High School senior, died Monday after being hospitalized for over a week.
Bonds was diagnosed with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, a bacterial strain that does not respond to antibiotics, and poses a special risk to young children, the elderly and people with depressed immune systems.
Drug-resistant staph infections appear more widespread than previously thought. A study by federal government researchers published in Wednesday's edition of the "Journal of the American Medical Association shows that infections caused by MRSA are no longer confined to hospitals and are increasingly found in community settings such as schools.
The study reports that an estimated 18,650 people died from MRSA in the United States in 2005 - a larger number than the 17,011 deaths attributable to HIV/AIDS across the nation in that year.
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